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    Tactics to Influence Keywords in Google's "Search Suggest" / Autocomplete in Instant?

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    • SallyO
      SallyO @Goetzman last edited by

      That's what I'm also interested in. What do you ask exactly to do?

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      • rishil
        rishil last edited by

        I came in to add link to my post http://explicitly.me/manipulating-google-suggest-results-–-an-alternative-theory but seems coule of people have already done that 🙂 Thanks guys!

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        • PrivateNameAM
          PrivateNameAM last edited by

          Long tail anchor tags and (maybe) tags in clouds.

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          • SEOTeam35
            SEOTeam35 last edited by

            Press Releases and Google News- 5-6 releases a month in order to influence the suggest for a particular phrase and also mentioned in Google News for a particular article or content can help to include the keywords in the suggest.

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            • philipjterry
              philipjterry last edited by

              I like to find root causes and reasons why events happen:

              causes of....

              effects of....

              Or if it is complicated and needs simplifying:

              whats the reasoning.....

              in a nutshell <then the="" first="" two="" letters="" of="" what="" you="" want="">(this method seems to work well back to front</then>

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              • jsturgeon
                jsturgeon last edited by

                Has anyone noticed a higher correlation among sites that use Google custom search? I know the queries made through custom search aren't necessarily using brand keywords, but I imagine that a higher volume of searches that include your domain must have an impact on autocomplete.

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                • CareerBliss
                  CareerBliss @Goetzman last edited by

                  So, Mechanical Turk is a an Amazon solution for a scalable workforce. You can have thousands of people around the world complete simple tasks for you. They are your brute force solution for getting work done. So, in the instance of manipulating suggested search, you utilize them to perform different queries other than company + scam in Google in order to, over time, knock that terms OFF of suggested search.

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                  • philipjterry
                    philipjterry last edited by

                    Just in case you have not read this already........

                    http://searchengineland.com/how-to-use-google-instant-as-a-powerful-link-building-x-ray-51729

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                    • MattFielding
                      MattFielding last edited by

                      The other side to this is the fact that it's easier to optimize for the terms Google Suggest already gives you than to try to make Google suggest the terms you're optimizing for. Use it as keyword research - if you're optimizing a bracelets e-commerce site, you'll see Google suggest 'bracelets for men' and 'bracelets for women' - other queries will produce less obvious results!

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                      • Mehmet.Korukmez
                        Mehmet.Korukmez last edited by

                        Google is going crazy with Exact Match Domain Names.I have searched for philips home theatre keyword (Google UK) and Google has returned top 3 results from philips UK and 2 other results from USA and India (.in and subdomain from .com).

                        I have been testing power of the exact match on the url,so far I have reached to the position 9 on facebook live keyword(UK) with facebooklive.co.uk (google) and Position 2 on Yahoo and Bing.

                        Not sure this is Google's interim solution until they find a better algorithm method after the Panda operation but this works!...

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                        • philipjterry
                          philipjterry last edited by

                          How does Google prioritize the what comes up in the auto-complete suggestions? By search volume or number of results or.......?

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                          • MattFielding
                            MattFielding @philipjterry last edited by

                            When it was first launched, Google suggestions came with a 'number of results' figure next to them, which disappeared soon after. Google Suggests is for ease of use, rather than for any SEO tactics, so they removed the figures.

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                            • Robert_Nemec
                              Robert_Nemec last edited by

                              In one of cases we worked on Google suggested "Brand name - very harmful keywords". It was mainly thanks to "tabloid campaign."

                              We negotiated with the owners of websites and with a small legal help they deleted the pages where were the brand name and the harmful keywords. Then we use Google Webmaster Tools to inform Google about these changes (Webpage removal request tool).

                              After that the harmful keyword dissapared from suggesting.

                              Since than we use it successfully again and again. It seems, Google needs pages where are both brand name and problematic keyword(s) highlighted (title, Hn...).

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                              • Tre
                                Tre last edited by

                                • Tweet with a link to the Google SERP--requires something compelling.
                                • Buy CPC traffic (such as from a tier 2 search network) and use the SERP as the landing page. You can buy clicks for less than $0.01, but Google may be able to ignore all of the traffic from click fraud (which seems inevitable at that price point).
                                • Buy remnant banner space if there is a compelling reason that a user would want to conduct the search.
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                                • bcmull
                                  bcmull @ThomasHgenhaven last edited by

                                  Explain more please?

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                                  • aarondicks
                                    aarondicks @bcmull last edited by

                                    Yes please explain more! I'd love to learn what you mean? As in post URL's, or ask people to search for your terms?!

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                                    • aarondicks
                                      aarondicks @Blargh123 last edited by

                                      Good explanation - so this can in theory be used for deep linking in the short term?...

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                                      • aarondicks
                                        aarondicks @RobertChapman last edited by

                                        What is a mechanical turk?

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                                        • Cyle
                                          Cyle @aarondicks last edited by

                                          here is a link to Mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome you can leverage it to do tons of things.

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                                          • Mr.Rangen
                                            Mr.Rangen @Dr-Pete last edited by

                                            I hope that works for +1 button clicks as well! Makes sense though if it truly does just reflect popular search behavior. Sometimes I think it would be better to perform keyword research on auto-complete over the finicky and inaccurate Google KW tool.

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